Billy Corgan 2012-06-12

June 12, 2012 – Chicago, IL, US
Live performance by The Smashing Pumpkins
Artist	The Smashing Pumpkins
Date	June 12, 2012
Venue	Odyssey on Lake Michigan
Coordinates	41°53′28″N 87°36′23″W
Location	Chicago, IL, US
Venue type	Boat
Capacity	680
Personnel	Billy Corgan, Jeff Schroeder
Order of bands	Billy Corgan
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June 12, 2012 was the Oceania Cruise and Listening Party. The entire band attended, although only Jeff joined Billy on stage to perform.

Setlist

1. "Jesus is the Sun" (live debut)
2. "Luna" 
3. "The Rite of Spring" (live debut)
4. "Bleed" (final performance)
5. "Tonite Reprise" 
6. "Tonight, Tonight" 

Notes

• "Bleed" with Jeff Schroeder on guitar
• First performance of "Bleed" since 1988-11-19
• First performance of "Luna" since 1994-07-03

Banter

BC: Alright. You out there?
Jesus is the Sun
BC: Thank you very much. Like to play one of my favorite songs for you. Um, um, [3 unintelligible words], Bill. Heh heh heh. Well, that sounds like a hit to me. You might recognize this one. (starts guitar) This one's for the ladies.
Luna
BC: Now I--I am getting old but I swore I--I could swear I played this song live before. But I actually looked on the internet the other night--I Googled myself--and I couldn’t actually find any evidence that I’d actually played this song. It’s called The Rite of Spring, does that sound familiar? Have I ever played that song? Okay, good. So just for you.
Guy in crowd: When’s it from? When’s it from?
BC: Mr. Internet Man, you can’t ask me these questions right now. This is for later. It’s called The Rite of Spring and Mr. Internet Man, it was written around the same time as Owata. Back when I didn’t write that song. According to the internet! According to the internet, I don’t know.
Guy in crowd: Fuck the internet.
BC: Yeah, fuck the internet. As soon as you get home, you’re gonna be like.... Okay. This is a bit wordy, this one, so.... Alright. Here we go.
The Rite of Spring
BC: Like to invite Jeff up. The Shredder. Okay, actually um, the other day, I had this thought and I thought, “Wow, when was the first show?” So, actually the first Smashing Pumpkins show was June--July 9th, 1987. So we’re almost at the exact 25 year anniversary, so I think that’s pretty cool. And so um, I thought it’d be cool to play a song that was actually played at the first Smashing Pumpkins show.
Girl in crowd: Do over.
BC: A joke that will never die from the fan that will. This is a song called The Bleed.
Bleed (with Jeff Schroeder)
BC: You know, Jeff, I have new respect for people who play on cruise ships, there’s this weird, like, you gotta be--you gotta keep your balance, man. Okay, just one more song. Thank you so much for a beautiful evening.
Guy in crowd: Hey, nice album!
BC: Thank you, thank you. I think we’re gonna remember this night for a while, you know what I mean? From the band that wouldn’t die. Mmm. Oh yeah, unlike Delaney Duhan(?).
Guy in crowd: You can do it!
BC: I can do it. By the way, Friday, what are you doing? Going to the Resistance Pro show. Excalibur, who’s going? I’d like to see a few more hands raised than that. I think I’ve earned the right for your wrestling love. That’s right. Don’t be afraid of wrestling...or not.
Tonite Reprise
> Tonight, Tonight
BC: Alright. Thank you very much. As a last, uh, as a last thing, I think it’s fitting to bring Jeff, Mike and Nicole up front here.
Guy in crowd: Where are they?
BC: Mike’s doing coke in the bathroom. He started his rock and roll journey tonight! So let me say to my bandmates, thank you so much. Thank you so much. I never thought I’d be in a band again, honestly, in a real band. And this is a real band. And I tell every interviewer, “I don’t care what the fuck you call it.” And they go, (dumb voice) “Well, why do you call it the Smashing Pumpkins?” (normal) Because--the reason we call it the Smashing Pumpkins is because we embody the spirit of that band. We’ve committed to the spirit of that band and that’s--that is the difference. We haven’t committed to something else, we’ve committed to the spirit of that band. And if we didn’t want to commit to it, well, we wouldn’t do it, but we’ve committed to the spirit of that band. And that band’s important for a variety of reasons, least of which is we’re here still to fuck up the boring motherfucking bullshit that keeps coming out and it’s bullshit. What is this, what happened to the nice little dream we had going there for a few minutes? Okay. So, you know, what we take from this evening is music brings us together and it’s love that binds us, you know, we love our band, we love each other and we’ve committed to this and I think you can hear that in the album and that you can’t fake, you can’t fake. And don’t let anybody tell you anything different about anything else, because that’s what it’s all about. That’s why I’m still here, that’s why we give a fuck. So thank you Jeff, thank you Mike, thank you Nicole. Would you like to say anything there?
Nicole: And thank you, Billy, and we love you.
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BC: Alright.
Nicole: After party, motherfuckers.
BC: Massachusetts style. It’s like--it’s like just like playing a Euro festival, we got the diesel and everything.

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